Supergrunch
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Out of the three macromolecules from the central dogma of biochemsitry (DNA -> RNA -> Protein), protein is the least likely to be involved in the origin of life for the simply reason that it contains no genetic information. DNA can contain genetic information but cannot self-replicate (the opposite of proteins), so the only remaining candidate is RNA, which can amazingly act as it's own enzyme for replication, by curling round on itself and making strings of nucleotides and thingies. (I'll look up the mechanism if you wish) You can cleave the bendy back bit from the chain, leaving you with a little molecule of awesome that'll duplicate other RNA molecules, and hey presto we have a "living" RNA world! This would result in a ton of errors due to various instabilities in RNA (easily oxdised, cytosine -> uracil etc.), so after a while it would get replaced with DNA. Enclose this in a membrane, possibly created by iron sulphate bubbles on the ocean bed, and then wait a bit, and there you go, good old fashioned life. Well, that's one theory.
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Bleh, Dom came, I missed him, then it disconnected me. I give up.
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Seriously dude, you'll need to be a lot more obscure than that before I forget you. Anyway, cool figure.
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Room is N-Europe.
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Awaken, walk, lecture, past paper, practical, finish past paper, walk, hand in past paper, walk, supervision, walk, change into suit, formal hall, wine, go to bar, talk, short walk, now.
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Let's face it, if the meaning of life is numerical, it'll be transcendental, or at least prime. To those who say sex is the meaning of life, due to some sort of evolutionary reasoning... not so much. Sure, you are designed to propagate your genes, because if you weren't, then your genes wouldn't get propagated. Does that make sex the meaning of life? Is this a meaning of life? I don't see how either answer can be affirmative.
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1. Build time machine. 2. Go back to the 70s. 3. Buy shares in Microsoft. 4. ??? 5. Profit!
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WHERE ARE YOU ALL NOW? I'd rather like a game.
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I'll sort out the first post later on for you.
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Not quite English, but I found a couple questions from lingusitics final papers you'll probably like. (both 3-hour essays) "No language is an island." Discuss. "Meaning is not in the world, it is in the mind." Discuss. Also an awesome past paper essay question from a past paper of the evolution exam I'm taking in a few weeks. (only 40 odd minutes for this one) Are chimpanzees more intelligent than goldfish?
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Your lizard just looks like a general lizardy thing, as for the spiders... zebra spiders perhaps?
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I've seen a couple of episodes, it was pretty funny. Anyhoo, I ordered the amazing:
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A post I made ages ago in the homework help thread explaining how to rearrange equations:
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Fun fact: I've been too busy working to read this thread in detail. Had a fun supervision on human evolution. I think I'm covered for my evolution paper and my maths one, it's biology of cells and to some extent chemistry that I'm worried about.
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Fun fact: Try completing the square on a generic quadratic equation, it's how the quadratic equation formula is derived.
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Talking of packages, today I got one from my dad containing a single pen, with a note saying "mea culpa." He took it by mistake when he came to visit me, and afterwards I rang him up and said as a joke that he'd stolen it... seems he took it a little too seriously. Actually, what's more likely is that he's just pissing about.
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Most people are talking about A-levels, especially maths modules, which are taken over two years. (16-17, where you do AS, and 17-18, where you do A2) The previous two years are spent doing GCSEs. The rest of us are doing university exams.
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Heh, you're in for a fun ride. How are you finding the subs?
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If you do Salters for OCR A-level chemistry, it peaks during your A2 year... on a scale of 1 to 10, 10 beng the hardest: Primary and earlier: 1 Pre-GCSE: 3 GCSE: 5 AS: 6 A2: 7 OCR Salters chemistry invidual investigation: 10 Natural Sciences (Cambridge): 9 First year natsci is purportedly the most stressful year of any degree, but it's nothing compared to that chemistry coursework. I'm being quite serious.
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I have 5 three hour exams, from the 3rd of June to the 10th. Lots of revision still to do...
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Supergrunch replied to Smalldude76's topic in General Chit Chat
I see no problem with quotes... they're definitely less related to self esteem than graphical signatures, as by definition they originate from someone else. Anyway, your sig is quite nicely done, yay for compound adverbs! And I reckon the twitter link is well placed. 8.5/10... What's the series? -
I've just had my last ever chemistry practical. This pleases me somewhat.
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I make it 80% exactly. No next round from me I'm afraid, I've done a couple already and I'm too busy...